Booting

ServersCheck Remote Booting enables you to reboot a server or PC remotely from any web browser, using a password protected interface. It runs as a service on the host machine and performs a forced reboot, even if applications are hanging or not responding. In addition to rebooting the machine,... Platforms: Windows

PXE Knife is a tool for booting various floppy based utilities via syslinux, allowing them to be booted off a CD, a hard drive, or over the network via PXE. PXE Knife can be used with a number of commonly used tools such as hard drive manufacturers utilities, memory testers, Linux recovery... Platforms: *nix

Etherboot is Open Source code for creating boot ROMs for network booting x86, AMD64, Itanium, Hammer, Hyperstone and ARM (noMMU) platforms. Platforms: *nix

BootUtils project is a collection of utilities to facilitate booting of modern Kernel 2.6 based systems. BootUtils is designed for initramfs, although volunteers to add support for initrd are welcome. The process of finding the root volume either by label or explicit label= on the kernel... Platforms: *nix

BootUtils is a collection of utilities to facilitate booting of modern Kernel 2.6 based systems. The process of finding the root volume either by label or explicit label= on the kernel command line, mounting it and 'switchroot'ing is automated. Platforms: *nix

emBoot's boot agents for VMware are client-based 'virtual' firmware that allows a VMware client VM to do a "network boot" using the virtual NIC. Our boot agents for VMware are fully compliant with the Intel Wired for Management - Preboot Execution Environment (PXE) specification. PXE is the... Platforms: Windows, *nix

Startup Faster! 2004 is a revolutionary tool to make your computer boot much faster than ever while protecting your hard disk from sudden failure. Even if you have a top-speed computer, you have to endure the long time when booting Windows(all versions). Startup Faster! 2004 completely solved... Platforms: Windows

Boot Log XP allows you to get complete information about Windows boot in a graphic view. Boot Log XP displays the start time and load time of each application loading while Windows is booting. Boot Log XP is easy in use: -Click on the "Test at next boot" button and restart your computer.... Platforms: Windows

* Complete package of services and applications required to setup a Windows network booting environment, including: PXE, BOOTP, and TFTP services, Boot Image Editor, Client boot parameter database editor (BOOTPTAB Editor), DOS-based pre-OS utilities. * Compliance with industry standards including... Platforms: Windows

TestDisk was primarily designed to help recover lost partitions and/or make non-booting disks bootable again when these symptoms are caused by faulty software, certain types of viruses or human error (such as accidentally erasing your Partition Table!). TestDisk has features for both novices and... Platforms: *nix, Windows

Quick Recovery Linux (ReiserFS) is a non-destructive, simple and easy to use data recovery software, supports IDE, EIDE, SCSI , SATA drives, long file name having multi-disk and multi-lingual support, partition in dual booting disk support, simulates previously existing partitions and is... Platforms: All flavours of Linux including Red Hat, Suse, Caldera, SCO, Debian, Mandrake, Sorcerer, Turbo Linux, Slackware, Gentoo and others

ivrescue is a small Linux rescue CD, suitable for booting systems that have become unbootable due to filesystem corruption or whatever. As an added bonus, everything is loaded into RAM - once the machine has booted, you can remove the CD from the drive. It lies somewhere between minimalist boot... Platforms: *nix

flashboot for OpenBSD is a set of makefiles, scripts, and support tools to build an OpenBSD image suitable for booting from read-only media, such as flash memory. The default image (smaller than 5Mb) is an image for a router/firewall with support for IPsec, SSH, IPv6 and IPv4 packet filtering,... Platforms: *nix

KickstartWeb is a complete web interface for provisioning Linux machines using Kickstart and PXE booting. KickstartWeb has been tested with Fedora Core, Red Hat Enterprise Linux, and CentOS. It provides control over your tftp files and a complete web GUI for creating and managing Kickstart... Platforms: *nix

GrapeTC Lite is an OS image created for easy and safe terminal access with many protocols. GrapeTC Lite is modern, safe and fast operating system. It's modern because it has possibility to connect to modern Windows and UNIX servers with supporting USB devices redirect and modern printers support.... Platforms: *nix

Recover data from partitions, which have been accidentally deleted/lost using the Disk Management utility or any third party partitioning tool. This software can also recover lost data from non-booting and crashed hard drives. This application has the ability to recover data from FAT16, FAT32,... Platforms: Windows

Recover data from partitions, which have been accidentally deleted/lost using the Disk Management utility or any third party partitioning tool. This software can also recover lost data from non-booting and crashed hard drives. This application has the ability to recover data from FAT16, FAT32,... Platforms: Windows

1-abc.net Startup Booster is much more than a Windows startup configuration tool! When Windows starts, it checks for registry entries that allow the system to execute files and programs together with it automatically. This so-called Windows startup can include drivers for printers and other... Platforms: Windows

Quick Recovery Linux (ReiserFS) is a non-destructive, simple and easy to use data recovery software, supports IDE, EIDE, SCSI , SATA drives, long file name having multi-disk and multi-lingual support, partition in dual booting disk support, simulates previously existing partitions and is... Platforms: All flavours of Linux including Red Hat, Suse, Caldera, SCO, Debian, Mandrake, Sorcerer, Turbo Linux, Slackware, Gentoo and others

Load registry files from offline systems, very useful if you are trying to recover a system that is prevented from booting by a bad driver or some other problem that requires the registry to be edited. RegistryLoaderPE only works for Windows NT/2000/XP/2003/2008/7 registry hives. Platforms: Windows